
Glenn writes – “We know how a transistor works but some of us doesn’t really know how to test the component itself. Nowadays, most Digital Multimeters have sockets provided to test them, but what will you do if you have those old Analog/Needletype ones? This is a simple way to do it…” Link.










We just went over this in Electronics class today. But as i found out, this doesn’t always hold true for transistors in-circuit.
This is one of the most useful blog entries i’ve seen.
Thanks!!!!!!!
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